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Venezuela Expelling Three U.S. Diplomats

President Maduro Claims Americans Planned to Unsettle His Country's Economy

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Kejal Vyas And

Ezequiel Minaya

Updated Sept. 30, 2013 8:00 p.m. ET

CARACAS—Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Monday said he ordered the expulsion of the top U.S. diplomat and two other U.S. embassy officials from his country for allegedly conspiring against the government.

Mr. Maduro gave the diplomats 48 hours to leave Venezuelan territory after charging them with meeting with members of the Venezuelan opposition and plotting to "sabotage the electrical grid" and unsettle the...